My former graduate student David Kidd and I first published evidence that reading literary fiction improved one’s capacity to infer and represent other people’s mental states (a capacity that is called Theory of Mind in psychological literature) in a 2013 article reporting results from five experiments, published in Science. Two other articles of ours further supports our original claims. The first is published in the APA journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts and looks at the same question using a correlational approach. The second article replicates the experimental findings and begins to elucidate the mechanisms. It is accepted for publication and is due to appear in the journal Scientific Study of Literature in fall 2016. Replications and extensions of our findings by independent researchers appeared in the the journal Poetics and, with an italian sample, in the journal PlosONE.